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|  | Bed Trick by Wendy Doniger
This critical study explores the history of the literary device defined here as the bed trick, in which a sexual encounter ensues when one of the partners has mistaken the other`s identity. This work gathers bed tricks from ancient through modern sources, exploring Hindu, Chinese, African, Arabic, Greek, and Roman folklores and myths, as well as English Renaissance dramatic writing, 19th-century opera, and modern novels and movies. AUTHOR: Wendy Doniger
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality 
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 | Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Dead Sea Scrolls expert Lawrence H. Schiffman shifts attention away from the sensationalism surrounding who has control of the scrolls by focusing on how these texts shed light on the history of Judaism and early Christianity. AUTHOR: Lawrence H. Schiffman
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Zen O'Clock by Scott Shaw
A little book on time that provides a Zen perspective for discovering a mystical process that will give readers a new outlook. AUTHOR: Scott Shaw
PUBLISHER: Red Wheel/Weiser
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Grace of God & the Will of Man by Clark H. Pinnock
An important theological perspective from an impressive team of evangelical scholars from many traditions. AUTHOR: Clark H. Pinnock
PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Pastor As Spiritual Guide by Howard L. Rice, Rita Collett
Howard Rice frames the work of the pastor in a new metaphor that renews both pastors and those they serve. This new metaphor is one of spiritual guide, replacing images of the pastor as educator, counselor, change agent, or administrator because, although important, they do not satisfy the full dimensions of leadership. The pastor as spiritual guide is one who finds his or her core identity in helping persons find meaning in life through a transforming relationship with God. The author goes on to express how this image can infuse all aspects of pastoral ministry such as preaching, teaching, social outreach, management, and administration. Seen from the perspective of spiritual guidance, the primary skill or tool brought to the work of pastoral ministry is one's own faith and willingness to share one's journey with others who are seeking. This book is especially important in that many pastors are experiencing frustration and discouragement because they feel pulled in many directions by their own and others' expectations of them. Some pastors even feel drained of the vision that they experienced as part of their initial call to pastoral ministry. Rice presents this unifying image of spiritual guidance as the focal and defining point of ministry and suggests how such an understanding can impact activities from planning worship to leading meetings and small groups within the church. AUTHOR: Howard L. Rice, Rita Collett
PUBLISHER: Upper Room Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Epistle to the Philippians by I. Howard Marshall, Peter T. O'Brien, W. Ward Gasque
O`Brien`s study on the Book of Philippians is a contribution to The New International Greek Testament Commentary, a series based on the UBS Greek New Testament and which seeks to provide thorough exegesis of the text that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of the historical, linguistic, and textual context. AUTHOR: I. Howard Marshall, Peter T. O'Brien, W. Ward Gasque
PUBLISHER: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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